[Puppet Users] Re: Lock file /var/lib/puppet/state/puppetdlock

Paul Lathrop
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:44:13 -0000

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
wrote:
> Otherwise....  I''ve no idea, because you''re the first to
run into it
> that I know of.
>
> Note that you should be able to run ''puppetd --enable'' to
remove that
> stale lock file.

I periodically run into this issue as well; it only happens on our Xen
VMs. Not sure if that helps.

I just have a cron job that runs puppetd --enable on these systems.

--Paul